Ass Quote by Kenneth E. Boulding

A … difference between most system-building in the social sciences and systems of thought and classification of the natural sciences is to be seen…

— Lawrence Joseph Henderson

Nature is pretty good at networks, self-organizing systems. By contrast, social systems are top-down and hierarchical, from which we draw the basic assumption that…

— Nicholas Negroponte

The social sciences offer equal promise for improving human welfare; our lives can be greatly improved through a deeper understanding of individual and collective…

— Nicholas A. Christakis

The social sciences are usually concerned with groups of persons rather than individual persons. The behavior of individuals, being free, is unpredictable.

— Carroll Quigley

In contrast to our own social environment which brings out different aspects of human nature and often demonstrated that behavior which occurs almost invariably…

— Margaret Mead

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.

— H. G. Wells

Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularity is indispensable to the creations of the imagination.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

A system that works for one person won't be perfect for another... Individuality is a major part of expanding knowledge.

— Georges St-Pierre

I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.

— Agatha Christie

Today the network of relationships linking the human race to itself and to the rest of the biosphere is so complex that all aspects…

— Murray Gell-Mann

“To generalize is to be an idiot," said Blake. Perhaps he went too far. But to generalize is to be a finite mind. Generalities…

— C.S. Lewis

We are, first of all, not solitary creatures and second of all, we are deeply embedded in the lives of others. It's very easy…

— Nicholas A. Christakis